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Qualyxian Quest May 2021
The zoologist studies the elephant
As I study myself

I'm trying to learn locations
Books upon my shelf

I loved Will Ferrell
In Stranger Than Fiction and in Elf

I'm suffering tonight
But, dear reader, I wish you health

                      And stealth.
Molly Smithson Jan 2013
The claws will come out
Of the bars,
My Lust.
Oh yes, they will first peek, curious.
So you reach out,
Even though this alley is dark
With boxes of people
Everywhere you look.
No, it is not safe

Because then, the scratch,
Maybe it's play?
Then she digs in,
That god ******
Ferrell pussycat.

She's never been easy to tame,
Whether it was the Hispanic boys
On that public school playground,
Or the teenager suburbanites yelling
From their car windows.
It definitely wasn't the stray tomcats
She met in the park,
Because of them
She darts glances with
A slick, rapid gleam in her eyes.

But maybe, Oh maybe,
Sweet, drunken docker,
Maybe you will glance back,
Just a pet, hen keep walking.
Maybe, she'll follow you home,
Purring as she presses
Her tail against your legs.
Here I stand right in front of you.
Who there is scared?
I stared right back at you,
and you look like you don't know what to do
because past tense became pre tense became

so tense

But then She cuts in. . .

"I am bigger than the mountain tops
I don't care, call the cops
and see if I go easy."
Nope.
Kicking and Screaming,
Will Ferrell.
Nope.
Cash Money.
Pine Box.
Rope.
Hang me,
Hung me.
Soap
Clean it up,
change the style,
I wonder if I'm in denial?
or Dial?
Spring, Irish, Sprung.
Axe.
****** me.
Have you even heard of me?
nope
But I grabbed your attention!
With my tense use of tension.
And did I forget to mention?
That line after line
I increased retention, prevention
prevented
You from walking way,
but not like her on that day.

I called the Cops.

She gets out in May.
David Jin May 2014
He looks at me hard, with disproval or disbelief, I cannot tell
He blinks twice, fast
Licks his lips in anticipation
Because what he is about to say can be taken so many ways
A lot of them badly

“Dude, you date her?”
“Yeah, I do”
“You love her?”
“Yeah, I do”
“You kiss her?”
“Yeah, I do”
“But she’s---” (shuts up)
“Yeah, she is”

Black
Before he spouts out another protest
before he blinks twice, licks his lips all over again
And points out that Asians shouldn’t date black girls
false
I ask him to take a look at what we’re both wearing
Black
Because quite simply, black looks good

So does she

He asks me why,
and I proceed to give him more reasons on why I date a black girl
than Republicans can against Obamacare
1: Black looks good
2: She’s a track star; runs like a horse
3: that’s really hot
4: Her eyes turn me into the walls of Jericho; I crumble down without resistance
5: She has the most beautiful smile that I have ever seen
6: I don’t need a 6

A thought for the public
If Beyonce dumped Jay-Z due to a sudden hunger for Asian men
Posted online for all the “single calculus geniuses” to meet her at a certain point
on a coordinate plane
I guarantee you that she’ll find a crowd bigger than both of their reputations combined
They’ll come in droves, driving like fanatics
You got your Tokyo Drift, your Jeremy Lin, your Mario Kart
and your blinker left on for the last 5 miles

Another idea to chew on
When my sister was asked who was the most attractive man in Hollywood
her response time was faster than Usain Bolt’s
She picked Anthony Mackie; I see some of ya’ll nodding
She even nicknamed him “Black Beauty”

Well my Black Beauty is in this room
She’s my own Queen B
Got me so drunk in love
My friends be scanning the sky for Cupid
Sending arrows from above

So why do people question the logic on whom I date
If I love her, that should overcome all misgivings
Not like they should’ve existed in the first place

I implore him to revisit this nation 170 years ago
when ***** wasn’t yet a racial term
rather it was the sound of the clanking of metal to railroad
as the slaves built train tracks for this country to be connected

To this day we still have more Emmitt Tills than we ever should
Trayvon Martin
Sean Bell
Oscar Grant
Rhamarley Graham
Jonathan Ferrell
The list goes on and on
Just like the subtle discriminations the black race still endures

At this point he might say that I am off topic, overboard
that I don’t have a clue of what I’m talking about
He’s only partially right because I am Asian
Not black, but yellow
But I can relate just a bit

And even to this day, white boys in school halls try to talk black because they think its ****
Rich women still clutch their purses tighter upon seeing you in public
Nervous people in elevators still eye you and your tats and make bogus assumptions
Authorities still follow you just because you’re wearing an oversized hoodie,
sagging your pants, and showing off your under armour

You know why these people point and stare and whisper
when laying eyes on you
making you feel like you’re courtside at a Clippers game
Some do it out of elitism and habit
Others out of fear
And some do it because quite simply, black looks good

And even though I intended to stop at 5,
He now has millions of reasons on why it’s ok I date a black girl
And rest assured, he is not the only one who needed to hear them

He blinks twice, licks his lips one final time
“But she’s black dude”
“Yeah, she is”
But she is so much more
This was a slam I wrote after hearing my friend's comment on my girlfriend: "Wow, I never thought Asians would date blacks."
Needless to say, he and I aren't that close lol
Poetic T Nov 2015
They stared down upon high, glancing in
Trepidation at what was slowly ebbing
Forward, not a snail of a pace but slowing
To that of a sloth, mundane consequences
Where the topic of the day.

What would two of undue taste relish in these
moments of flickering thoughts on what waited
Edging forward to an unseen fate but in their
Gawking  at what was time counting down to a
Conclusion that was abiding its momentary time.

"I do hate this moment,

"What moment begrudges you at the crossroads,

"Its just watching it slop off into prominent areas,

"Never regress what will undoubtedly happen,

"But my taste buds ponder the relishing aroma of what awaits,

They as would be voyeurs of this collapse of will,
Heeding their pace of what is happening. And upon
Sullen branches they pincer upon gladly. Dead longer
Than their birth, but granting views of otherwise,
Winged visions from high above.

"Just a little nick, to ebb away spirit,

"Yes let us bleed upon the ground,

"Really??

"Why thoughts peruse me of this endeavour, and consequences,

"What ramifications would be birthed from actions?
"Nothing but a time indulged must quicker on us,

Fleeting droplets would adhere to the winds gestures,
"Carnivorous undertakers would inhale and smile,

"Do you understand what I imply on your thoughts,

"Yes undue wanting's of our lingering dinner,
"Unjust would this be upon our delicate waiting,

So they gathered upon a the caked ground, speaking
Side by side as their dinner slowly moved on, contemplating
That ever closer moment when breath would leave and
waiting would be done. But night fell and so curled up
Did their feast stop still upon cooling ground shivering.

"Should I degrees  that we wait no longer,
"Its stopped moving, just a nibble is all one wants,

"Thoughts contemplate this endeavour as rumbling is heard,
"Not of the wind or ground but my stomachs hunger aches,

So one approached wings flapping silently in the desert air,
A gust catches as claws capture the ground and stills himself.
"Whoops,
The other shakes his head at his friends near flight into nights
Abyss only to edge ever closer to their midnight feast.
He gently grabs fingers and squeezes pressure ever so lightly.
Momentary pleasure is interrupted by a sudden shift.

"O my god it just chipped my beak,

"You impetus fool I told you to heed the voice below,

Just then, without due warning an arm flared in all
Directions as if life had breathed anew and feathers
Leap in joyous freedom into the clinging air.
Noises of man and bird filled the twilights moon.  
Then as hands gripped tightly upon a beaconing
Throat preoccupying breath talons played with
Subtle tones of skin. opening them up to the waiting
Floor below and it drank so very well,

"I...,
"Think,
"I've,
"Woooo,

And with that a head now being where it shouldn't be.
That which had crawled also a last breath did escape.
As a river of life ran past my claws soaking the earth
In its need for substance. The night was still and death
Had spoken angered torment.

"Well I have never had a friend for dinner,
"Don't give me those dead eyes, ok ill eat them,

And on this night the vulture who gathered around
A meal only dreamt off in this barren place. He'd had
Invited a friend for a chat before dinner, never thinking
That his companion would be the starter before the
Main course. light graced the  morning and he was full.

"Now that was a meal, a friend would want to be part of.
"Sorry I didn't mean it like that,
"But you know what you both taste like chicken?

"Funny think is I don't know what a chicken was?

So he waved goodbye to a meal well had,
"Bye my friend or what's left,
But unbeknown to him, the air was seeded in the
Night crisp air of deaths whispers and others who
Knew that taking of fallen prey was at hand.
He sensed breath and behind coming fast was a
Hungry pack. He flapped his wings knowing flight
Beats feet, but wings pounding upon airs grace.
And still he ran upon soiled earth, to much had he
Gorged upon friend and foe, now filled him so.

"I do so hate the circle of life sometimes,

And with that thought did jaws close tight and
The circle of life greeted this fat bird, as the one
That growled found this bird to be like Christmas
It had once heard this word. a bird stuffed three,
This Ferrell pawed one had just had the best bird
Nature could have given. It howled upon the sky
At the delight of its friends, what a feast they did eat.
grey Jun 2020
"I can't breathe." - George Flloyd

"I don't have a a gun, stop shooting!" -Michael Brown

"What are you following me for?" -Trayvon Martin

"...." -Jonathan Ferrell

"I love you too." -Sean Bell

Stop. Killing. Innocent. People.
black lives matter
Alexander Miller Jun 2020
I close my eyes and pray. I hope we see the day,
That all this **** wastes away.
I try to contemplate the same reason I stayed. Hoping not to be afraid.
We empty the soil of our lifeless graves. And still we're the still the same.
Yeah, I know we've had enough.
Oppressors with handcuffs,
Professors that ****** us and the school system that kills us.
I realize that this corruption always was.
But now in this time all the lifeless cries are adding up.
Unarmed. And dead.
The trauma in our heads, The damage said.
TRAYVON MARTIN Walking home when Zimmerman shot him.
KEITH SCOTT Sitting in car, reading.
Shot and killed, bleeding,
ATATIANA JEFFERSON Looking out her window,
Shot by police who was supposed to be protecting her though
JORDAN EDWARDS Riding in a car.
Shot in the head by police went way too far
JONATHAN FERRELL Asking for help after auto accident. Shot twelve times by police,
Facts I can't stand. This should not be our reality
STEPHON CLARK Holdng a cellphone.Things you can't condone.
Shot 8 times It is a extreme crime. Officers not charged. a unjustice at large.
AMADOU DIALLO While taking out wallet, screamed stop it.
Four officers fired 41 shots,  another death added to the profit
RENISHA MCBRIDE Auto accident, This **** I can't stand.
Knocked on door for help. Another perceived racist added to the shelf
Homeowner was found guilty of second-degree ******.
You can't change the past just know how he hurt her
TAMIR RICE Playing with toy gun, no justice for someone's son
Shot and killed by police officer arriving on scene.
Yeah you may not believe it. but it happened see it
SEAN BELL Hosting a bachelor party, this is our reality
50 rounds fired by police officers, who were found not guilty.
Another sin you don't see
WALTER SCOTT Pulled over for brake light,
Shot in the back by police officer who lost his mind.
Another unjust on civil rights
PHILANDO CASTILE Pulled over in car, this went too far.
Told officer he had a legally registered weapon in car.
Shot and killed. No justice instilled
AIYANA JONES  Sleeping, shot and killed by officer in a raid on the wrong apartment.
Justice has lost it. Officer cleared of all charges.
TERRENCE CRUTCHER Disabled vehicle, another death of the people.
Shot and killed. No way to heal
ALTON STERLING Selling CDs, shot at close range while being arrested.
No justice. We can't make sense of this
FREDDIE GRAY Beaten to death while in police custody.
Another way of the oppressed, can't you see
JOHN CRAWFORD Shopping at WalMart,  where are our hearts
shot and killed for holding a BB gun on sale,
Again no justice and sin prevailed
OSCAR GRANT Handcuffed and face-down, officer shot him in the back.
Not even carrying a strap. sadness in its wraps
AHMAUD AUBREY Jogging, Heart stopping just cause of perceived injustice.
Jaw dropping but it doesn't end there
GEORGE FLOYD. Killed by officer who made sin his choice
Hate we can't avoid but one thing we can deploy is the truth.
That these are people too.
Say their names and reconize the pain
Travis Green Jun 2020
Let’s pay homage to many innocent black lives that were taken by
the corrupt system:  Martin Luther King Jr.  Malcom X.  Emmett Till.  George Stinney.  Will Brown.  Sandra Bland.  Trayvon Martin.  Ahmaud Arbery.  Breonna Taylor. George Floyd.  David McAtee.  Natosha “Tony” McDade.  Yassin Mohamed.  Finan H. Berhe.  Sean Reed.  Steven Demarco Taylor.  Ariane McCree.  Terrance Franklin.  Miles Hall.  Darius Tarver.  William Green.  Samuel David Mallard.  Kwame “KK” Jones.  De’von Bailey.  Christopher Whitfield.  Anthony Hill.  Eric Logan.  Jamarion Robinson.  Gregory Hill Jr.  JaQuavion Slaton.  Ryan Twyman.  Brandon Webber.  Jimmy Atchison.  Willie McCoy.  Emantic “Ej” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.  D’ettrick Griffin.  Jemel Roberson.  DeAndre Ballard.  Botham Shem Jean.  Robert Lawrence White.  Anthony Lamar Smith.  Ramarley Graham.  Manuel Loggins Jr.  Wendell Allen.  Kendrec McDade.  Larry Jackson Jr.  Jonathan Ferrell.  Jordan Baker.  Victor White III.  Dontre Hamilton.  Eric Garner.  John Crawford III.  Michael Brown.  Ezell Ford.  Dante Parker.  Kajieme Powell.  Laquan McDonald.  Akai Gurley.  Tamir Rice.  Rumain Brisbon.  Tony Robinson.  Mario Woods.  Quintonio LeGrier.  Gregory Gunn.  Akiel Denkins.  Alton Sterling.  Philando Castile.  Terrance Sterling.  Terrence Crutcher.  Keith Lamont Scott.  Alfred Olango.  Jordan Edwards.  Stephon Clark.  Danny Ray Thomas.  Dejuan Guillory.  Patrick Harmon.  Jonathan Hart.  Maurice Granton.  Julius Johnson.  Jamee Johnson.  Michael Dean.  Keith Childress.  Bettie Jones.  Kevin Matthews.  Michael Noel.  Leroy Browning.  Leroy Nelson.  Miguel Espinal.  Nathaniel Pickett.  Tiara Thomas.  Cornelius Brown.  Jamal Clark.  Richard Perkins.  Michael Lee Marshall.  Alonzo Smith.  Anthony Ashford.  Dominic Hutchinson.  Lamontez Jones.  Rayshaun Cole.  Paterson Brown.  Christopher Kimble.  Junior Prosper.  Keith McLeod.  Wayne Wheeler.  Lavante Biggs.  India Kager.  Tyree Crawford.  James Carney.  Felix Kumi.  Asshams Manley.  Christian Taylor.  Troy Robinson.  Brian Day.  Michael Sabbie.  Billy Ray Davis.  Samuel Dubose.  Darrius Stewart.  Albert Davis.  Salvado Ellswood.  George Mann.  Jonathan Sanders.  Freddie Blue.  Victo Larosa.  Spencer McCain.  Kevin Bajoie.  Zamiel Crawford.  Jermaine Benjamin.  Kris Jackson.  Kevin Higgenbotham.  Ross Anthony.  Richard Gregory Davis.  Curtis Jordan.  Markus Clark.  Lorenzo Hayes.  De’Angelo Stallsworth.  Dajuan Graham.  Brandon Glenn.  Reginald Moore.  Nuwnah Laroche.  Jason Champion.  Bryan Overstreet.  David Felix.  Terry Lee Chatman.  William Chapman.  Samuel Harrell.  Freddie Gray.  Norman Cooper.  Brian Acton.  Darrell Brown.  Frank Shephard III.  Walter Scott.  Donald “Dontay” Ivy.  Eric Harris.  Phillip White.  Dominick Wise.  Jason Moland.  Bobby Gross.  Denzel Brown.  Brandon Jones.  Askari Roberts.  Terrance Moxley.  Anthony Hill.  Bernard Moore.  Naeschylus Vinzant.  Tony Robinson.  Charly Leundeu “Africa” Keunang.  Darrell Gatewood.  Deontre Dorsey.  Thomas Allen Jr.  Lavall Hall.  Calvon Reid.  Gerdie Moise.  Terry Price.  Natasha McKenna.  Jeremy Lett.  Kevin Garrett.  Alvin Haynes.  Artago Damon Howard.  Tiano Meton.  Andre Larone Murphy Sr.  Leslie Sapp.  Brian Pickett.  Frank Smart.  Matthew Ajibade.

There are so many more that have died at the hands of the prejudice system.  All of you will never be forgotten.  Your legacy will forever live on.  Rest in Paradise to the fallen angels.
Robin Carretti May 2018
Are we in_
((Hell))
This is no
((Liberty Bell))

We are the high water
War below and what's up
Will you never know?

Green mudfish
alligators
Decomposed
no growth

Never Oh!
My sweet Lord

Never produce
a broken
family cord
_

Electricity

The procreation
Oh! God

To raise the
waterbed
floating

Producing_ babies
crying
detention
Troubled
abortion_ tears fears
Beer pockets
Most valuable
Moms locket
Let's never forget
Eternity of lifetimes
I am frightened
Be ready set
The bad
impressions

Never to be belittled
infractions
Presidential
Re-produced
Its all in our genes
a bad temper
fuse
((Rose))
I suppose
I am smelling
Gucky
******, Icky, Too picky
Up to my neck long
hickey play Stuckey
Never dull moment
The player of hockey


The streets foul
smell putrid

Ever or never
Can we all do better
It darkens's our spirit
Bitter smile Egyptian

The Nile or God sake
The Northern star
All greased Southerner
Fried Chicken
There's never
A smile day his
Mom deceased

Her bad haircut
Rotted beams
Red devil NJ
dreams
Never be
miserable or
?
What! The weaker
The prey of all weeks

They go in three's
Turned into rotten
One Apple
computer

Unsatisfactory
No sweat of
the factory
The composer

Squirrels and
Comedy Will Ferrell

Will Smith
got locked
Bad report
Movie card
Geologically
Rotten
The poem
almost got
hidden
Robin wanted
everyone
To be happy
in this
rotten
unforgiving
world

To Produce
Spiritual blessing
He smiles with
that Kraft
: Rotten Greens:
His Witch
dressing
_

Never
produce
Dead boring-set
producer
Under-cut  
pay riot
Never act
like
idiots
thrown
inside
a fruit bin

Never
Fruit loops
to be priced
I got stuck
by ((Cactus))
pin
Take it from me
Brooklyn girl
((Canarsie))
Never the
Tootsie
roll
Taking a ride
inside
my soul
Hello to all
my family
So forever loyal*


But the Disloyal
Dangerous
earth
Morally corrupt
everyone
feels so rotten
Someone got to you
what nerves
to interrupt

What we interpret
on the internet
Mr. Mcintosh
Overly friendly Josh
The pink lady
Let's never
produce
anything shady
Let's produce something in our minds like no other human can. Writing a poem is hard enough. But when we do the homework We are Gods tough enough
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2020
Does me, nor my family,
No good to intensely hate myself

Not perfect, just better
Mr. Markson on my shelf

Will Ferrell in Stranger Than
                 Fiction
Will Ferrell in Elf

Will Ferrell mocks George W.
SNL is real intelligence wealth

Continuous convalescence
For my family and their health

                     Amen.
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2021
I know that I'm ridiculous
Like lonesome life itself

I just cannot stop writing
David Markson on my shelf

Will Ferrell does George W.
Will Ferrell fun in Elf

Why do I keep writing?
Don't really know myself

               Desperate!
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Shoe me once, shoe's on you.
Shoe me twice, I'm keepin' those shoes.
Connie Hopkins Sep 2021
Now you may think this is about a little girl
But, you would be wrong
You might think it is about a spoiled adult princess
But, you would be wrong
Princess Rottened-A-Lot is about a
She has huge

She has four tiny*
She has a square patch on her *

Have you guessed what she is yet?

Princess Rottened-A-Lot is about a Fur Person
She has huge brown eyes
She has four tiny feet
She also has a square patch                                                                                   Right where her tail meets
Princess Rottened-A-Lot is a little Chihuahua.
She is in terrible trouble when I tell her
If only you weren't so little and cute.

By Connie Hopkins/Lisa Hopkins Ferrell
Her name is DeeDee Ann
James brend Jul 2019
I can see the future, acid rain and mushroom clouds, ferrell creatures and melting skin
homes of rubble and ashes with barbecues of human flesh; and we are rotting from within

I can see the future, blocking out the sun belonging to the flies, and l welcome the sense of freedom, not a fetish or some vice
but from death comes rebirth; a necessity for life

Now i live in the past where the present is extinct, it's not dark but lonely, there a delusion sets me free: In the archives of my mind, in the basement locked in chains within a box that needs a key... There's a note that reads --- "i luv ya, kid" --- left by future me
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2021
Americans are lost souls
I know. I'm one myself.
Will Ferrell as George W.
Will Ferrell too as Elf

Democracy please be
But we need real education
Stockholm by the Sea
Monastic contemplation

My life careening chaos
But thankfully my boys
American politics
Please silence in the noise

Now I live on Main Street
I like my newfound neighbors
No great thing to do
No momentous labors

                  parenthood
Charles Brookfield - 1893
William Gillette - 1899-1930 - 1,300 performances in 30 yrs.
Sherlock Holmes movie Baffled - 1900 Silent/Short - Max Goldberg
John F. Preston - 1900
Charles Rice – 1904
Karoly Baumann - 1905
Maurice Costello - 1905
Viggo Larsen – 1908
Alwin Neub – 1908, 1911, 1914
Otto Lagoni - 1910
Holger Rasmussen – 1911
Mack Sennett – 1911-1912
George Treville - 1912
Harry Benham - 1913
James Bragington - 1914
Francis Ford - 1914
H.A. Saintbury – 1916
Hugo Fink - 1917
Sam Robinson - 1918
Eille Norwood - 1921 Silent short movie - The Dying Detective
Burt Lytell - 1921
Dennis Neillson-Terry - 1921
John Barrymore – 1922
Hamilton Deane – 1923-1932
Tod Slaughter – 1928, 1930
Richard Gordon – 1930-1933, 1936
Clive Brook – 1929/1930/1932
Arthur Wontner – 1931- 1937 – Movie Series
Raymond Massey - 1931
Robert Rendel - 1932
Reginald Owen - 1933
Felix Alymer - 1933
Louis Hector – 1934-1935, 1937
Bruno Guttner – 1937, 1939, 1942-1943
Orson Welles - 1938
Basil Rathbone - 1939-1946
Cedric Hardwick – 1945
Tom Conway – 1947
Howard Marion-Crawford - 1948
John Stanley – 1948-1949
Alan Napier - 1949
Alan Wheatley - 1951
John Longden - 1951
Laidman Browne - 1951
Carleton Hobbs - 1952-1969
Ronald Howard - 1954/55 (39 episodes)
John Gielgud - 1954-1955
Peter Cushing - 1959, 1968, 1984
Christopher Lee - 1962, 1970, 1992
Douglas Wilmer - 1964
John Neville - 1965, 1970, 1978
Robert Stephens - 1970
Stewart Granger – 1972  
John Cleese – 1973
Larry Hagman - 1974
Robert Powell - 1974
Rolf Becker - 1974
John Wood – 1974-1975
Leonard Nimoy - 1976
Douglas Wilmer - 1976
Roger Moore - 1976
Nicol Williamson - 1976
Kevin McCarthy - 1977
Christopher Plummer - 1977
Peter Cook - 1977
Paxton Whitehead - 1978
Barry Foster - 1978
Geoffrey Whitehead - 1979-1980
Graham Armitage - 1979-1980, 1985
Keith Mitchell - 1979
Charlton Heston - 1980
Frank Langella - 1980
Vasily Livanov - Russian T.V. - 1979-1981, 1983 & 1986
John Moffatt - 1981
Guy Henry - 1982
Tom Baker – 1982  
Ian Richardson - 1983
Peter O’Toole – 1983 (animated T.V. films – Australian)
Jeremy Brett - 1984-1994
Nicholas Rowe - 1984
Guy Rolfe – 1984
Dinsdale Landen - 1987
Tim Pigott-Smith – 1987
Anthony Higgins – 1987
Michael Pennington - 1987
Roger Rees - 1988
Ron Moody - 1988-1989
Clive Merrison - 1989-1998, 2002, 2004, 2008-2010
Edward Woodward - 1990
Simon Callow - 1990
Richard E. Grant 1992
Robert Powell – 1993
Patrick McNee – 1993
Anthony Higgins – 1993
1998-2019:  John Gilbert - Episodes 1-18
                     Lawrence Albert - Episode 20
                     John Patrick Lowrie - Episodes 21-65 & 67-until
                     Dennis Bateman - Episode 66
Jason Gray-Stanford – 1999-2001 – Animation
Matt Frewer – 2000-2001
Joaquim de Almeida - 2001
Richard Roxburgh - 2002
James D’Arcy - 2002
Andrew Sachs - 2004
Rupert Everett – 2004
Jonathan Pryce - 2007
Javier Marzan – 2007
Roger Llewellyn – 2009
Robert Downey Jr. 2009 & 2011
Ben Syder – 2010
Nicholas Briggs – 2010-2018
Igor Petrenko - Russian T.V. Series - 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch - 2010-2016
Christian Rode – 2010, 2014
Anthony P.D. Mann - 2011 (More like a thriller "spoof" by V Movies)
Samuel Tady – 2011, 2014, 2017-2018 (Tady Bros. Productions/on YouTube)
Johnny Lee Miller – 2012-2019
Benjamin Lawlor - 2013
Seamus Dever - 2014
Ian McKellen – 2015
Euan Morton – 2015
Gregory Wooddell - 2015
Paul Andrew Goldsmith – 2015-2016
Ewen Bremner - 2016
Jay Taylor – 2017-2018
Yuko Takeuchi – 2018 (HBO Asia – female ‘Holmes’)
Orlando Wells - 2018
Johnny Depp – 2018 (animation)
Will Ferrell – 2018
Nicholas Boulton – 2020
Henry Cavill - 2020
Ethan Bell – 2020 (Fan Film on YouTube)
Ethan Thomas Jung – 2020 Fan Adv.
      (Vagabond Repertory Theater Company—YouTube)

This list is not exhaustive. however, these are some of the
many actors who have played Sherlock Holmes on stage,
screen, radio and T.V. adaptations.
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2021
Not a saint. Not a hero.
I like Stanley. I like Zero.

Would like to be a Warrior Poet
But a bit of a joke, doncha know it

Not now working, at least not for money
Will Ferrell: very funny.

Once a teacher, tried to do my best
Now just a dad. Need for rest.

Once in love with a curious smile
She said goodbye. I cried awhile.

Europe. Asia. Israel too.
Ever ancient, Ever new.

               Eyes Green.
                Soul blue.
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2022
Yo soy un isolato
I reach out but do not reach
Life is suffering
So is Satellite Beach

Boonsboro, Maryland
Not much going down
Only a little dancing
Black and grey prom gown

Kate Mckinnon makes me laugh
Will Ferrell too
I cried awhile
Give myself to you

Ancient Greece was the sea
I cycled Baltic blue
I like lonely libraries
2772
Qualyxian Quest May 2020
Will Ferrell on George W.
On SNL

Washington, Lincoln, and
I wanna say .... Kensington
I dunno

O, but I know George W.
As do the millions of Iraqi dead
And tens of thousands
Of dead and wounded
American soldiers

Kensington is referenced
In the medieval English
Domesday, which is to say,
Doomsday Book

Said to be unalterable
As irrevocable as

                The Last Judgment.
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2021
17
To An Athlete Dying Young
Is the one that I remember

I was 17
Might have been September

I still play basketball
Now shoot by myself

Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
Tolkien on my shelf

                      Will Ferrell
                             Elf
Qualyxian Quest Jan 2023
My son is going  to report on Elon Musk
The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk
****** fantasies; fantasies of trust
Love is an angel disguised as lust

She is an angel; like Tupelo honey
She's also ordinary; I don't have much money
Stockholm in the summer, pretty and sunny
Mr. Will Ferrell frequently funny

For ourselves and our posterity
I plant a mustard seed
2037
A pal's last need a thing to heed

At my best I wait, throw a good bounce pass
Candidates debate
He studies.
She was a grand wee lass

You people of the future
And you people of the past
Still in this together
Hey Now! Everlast.
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
My son is going  to report on Elon Musk
The owl of Minerva flies only at dusk
****** fantasies; fantasies of trust
Love is an angel disguised as lust

She is an angel; like Tupelo honey
She's also ordinary; I don't have much money
Stockholm in the summer, pretty and sunny
Mr. Will Ferrell frequently funny

For ourselves and our posterity
I plant a mustard seed
2037
A pal's last need a thing to heed

At my best I wait, throw a good bounce pass
Candidates debate
He studies.
She was a grand wee lass

You people of the future
And you people of the past
Still in this together
Hey Now! Everlast.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2021
I love 10,000 Maniacs
I'm a maniac myself

The Night I hear a-calling
Moby **** upon my shelf

Center for teaching and learning
Will Ferrell played the Elf

Christmas not only December
Money not only wealth

                 Letters.
Qualyxian Quest Apr 2023
37
Death will be Release
Torment finally gone
I hope to sleep in peace
Temple of the Dawn

I read a lot of books
Rode a lot of trains
Once taught with Mike Zook
Never Been to Spain

Music a companion
The guns gotta go
Seattle all alone
Softfall cedar snow

Misery of my marriage
3 beautiful boys
No horse or carriage
She's got the *** toys

Would that she would hold me
Let me cry and cry
Delusions y Confusions
Exoplanet Sky

Extrasolar Water
Pink champagne on ice
South Side of Chicago
Ooo dat girl looked nice

Tired, trepidation
Not a lotta money
Maybe Stranger Than Fiction
Will Ferrell very funny

We are the language animal
I go ramblin' round
Lonely as the rain
Off like a prom gown

Hope amidst despair
In the mud the lotus flower
The Daughters indeed will come
No man knows the hour

                 Reno!
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2021
The priest said life can come from death
The people sang Spanish songs

When anxiety attacks I find my breath
Move along now. Move along.

Read a couple books about Mexico
But never been myself

Mr. Vasconcelos did Pythagoras know
Richard Rodriguez on my shelf

Toledo's taqueria
Will Ferrell's elf

Salud. To your health!
Qualyxian Quest Feb 2023
Nearly everything in America
Is distorted by race, fame, history, and money
Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Dave Chappelle
Very often Very funny

At times I'm an egg
White outside, yellow within
But actually I'm a tree:  brown (green eyes)
Thomas means The Twin

Shakyamuni Buddha
The original Woke man
Thai forest monks
Thich Nhat Hanh, not ** Chi Minh

It's a man's world
But women are more interesting
More mysterious
O that Secret Garden within!

                  Blue Lotus!
Qualyxian Quest Dec 2023
America is Ignorance
Ignorance. Violence. Money.
But I like Will Ferrell
Often very funny

China builds the bullet trains
Dim sum. Hong Kong lights
The Catholic Church collapses
Sor Juana's mystic flights

David Markson in Mexico
Me in Nueva York
Vegetarian burritos
Vegetarian - no pork

Today I stay inside
Johnny Cash once more
Lonely as the rain
When I walk in Baltimore
Qualyxian Quest Mar 2021
Old Uncle Sid
Milton on the shelf

Louis on the poster
Will Ferrell is the Elf

They also serve who wait
So I walk and wait and wonder

Basketball in mist
Far off distant thunder

Help me rise, please sympathize
When I too do go under!
Qualyxian Quest Aug 2020
Kensington where Chesterton was born
And where T.S. Eliot died

Kensington on SNL
Where Will Ferrell shows George W. Lied

A stupid, unjust, and criminal war
George W. destroyed Iraq

Killed hundred of thousands of innocents
Can never take that back

Created ISIS as well
With his Shock and Awe attack

He stands condemned by history
May his memory never come back
Qualyxian Quest Sep 2020
A decades long obsession
A lonely, struggling life

Three beautiful boys
Agony from my wife

Life is isolation
The prison of the self

But I like Michael Clayton
And Will Ferrell in elf

No ones gonna help me
Gonna have to help myself
Qualyxian Quest May 2020
3:07 a.m.
I am awake and vigilant

Will Ferrell on SNL as George W.
Washington, Lincoln, Kensington
Qualyxian Quest Nov 2023
Psychofears
I have to sleep
Gonna be difficult
Without much money

Will Ferrell
Steve Martin
Robin Williams
Very very funny

Aging, but not gracefully
Sleep
Fear
Sleep

Un pequito hope
Solitude
Promises to keep
Promises to keep
Qualyxian Quest Jul 2023
The long road of despair
No other traveller there
Saw Dylan in DC
County Fair! County Fair!

Would like to travel again
But don't have enough money
California. Florida.
Will Ferrell very funny

Simple little poems
Rhyme. Alliteration.
He said Welcome to New York
I take several medications

Life is a dis-ease
She has a beautiful ***
St. James Cathedral
Quiet contemplative Mass

                      Rain.
I yearn to escape America
But I have no money
George W. Lies
Will Ferrell is funny

A bad marriage is bitter poison
Believe me I do know
My sons and I a-sledding
In the Reno snow

Springsteen at the Fox
Detroit. Maybe 95.
My life is a disaster
But I'm still happy to be alive

Susan, beautiful Susan
San Francisco Zen
Vegetarian tacos
Star Trek. Esta bien.
I almost became a Trappist
But I had a panic attack
Still got a monk in me
Silence more than words

I like traveling
But now I have no money
Will Ferrell is funny

                        Absurd!

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